My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

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Here are six examples of how foreign visitors to the US with no criminal record are being treated:

1. Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding student with no criminal record married to an American is abducted by ICE and is still in detention over a week later.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n...
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

What is a 20+ year old paper that you think everyone should read? and why?

Mine is easy. It is Shannon's 1948 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

It led to widespread adoption of probabilistic modeling of language, sth we take for granted today. If you think about it, it is not trivial at all!

Student's t-distribution - Wikipedia

See the last paragraph under “History” in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student...

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lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train

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